Building a Cybersecurity Team with Paula Januszkiewicz

Security is the MOST important thing you can do to keep your company alive. But are you doing EVERYTHING you can? A recent survey showed that over 57% of businesses still have users with local admin rights. Stop “Running with the scissors” and take away those admin rights! But when you do, how will you re-enable your users to install their own printers and fonts, install some of their own applications and bypass pesky UAC prompts? If you’ve got hundreds or thousands of desktops to manage, you’re going to love the super powers of PolicyPak ! Elevate standard user rights when needed, block malware and “unknown-ware” and get out of the local admin business! If you haven’t looked at PolicyPak, and you have more than 20 domain joined and/or non-domain joined machines, then you’re missing out. Check out PolicyPak at PolicyPak.com for real-world problem-solving demos, plus a way for you to try it out yourself. PolicyPak Software: Securing Your Standards.

About Show #585

What does it take to build a great cybersecurity team? Richard chats with Paula Januszkiewicz about the work she's doing to create more cybersecurity professionals. The challenge is that cybersecurity still isn't really a profession - there are no certifying bodies out there that take on responsibility for their members. Paula talks about different certifications you can get, but in the end, doing the work is the most important thing - and how you approach security problems. It's a full-time task - if you can't think about security all the time, it's hard to keep up!

Paula Januszkiewicz is the IT Security Auditor and Penetration Tester, Enterprise Security MVP and trainer (MCT) and Microsoft Security Trusted Advisor. She is also a top speaker at many well-known conferences including TechEd North America, TechEd Europe, TechEd Middle East, RSA, TechDays, CyberCrime, etc., and is often rated as number-one speaker. Paula is engaged as a keynote speaker for security related events and she writes articles on Windows Security. She proudly holds the role of the Security Architect at IDesign, a team of world-class architects, and she drives her own company CQURE, working on security related issues and projects. Paula has conducted hundreds of IT security audits and penetration tests, including those for governmental organizations. Her distinct specialization is definitely on Microsoft security solutions in which she holds multiple Microsoft certifications, besides being familiar with and possessing certifications in other related technologies. Paula is passionate about sharing her knowledge with others. In private, she enjoys researching new technologies, which she converts to authored trainings. She wrote a book about Threat Management Gateway 2010, and is working on her next book. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/paula.januszkiewicz LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/paulajanuszkiewicz Website: http://idesign.net, http://cqure.pl